LONG ISLAND TRAGEDY

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13807, 19 January 1909, Page 5

LONG ISLAND TRAGEDY

THE UNWRITTEN LAW. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copy Jt NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Thornton Hains has been acquitted at Flushing, Long Island, as an accessory in Captain Hains' shooting of William Annis in August last. Captain Hains awaits trial. Captain Hains, of the United States Artillery, with his brother Thornton, the son's of General Hains, who distinguished himself in the Cuban-Span-ish war, in August last waited on a landing stage of the Yacht Clulv at Long Island amid a crowd of fashionable pleasure-seekers until William Annis, the New York publisher, landed; then the captain shot at Annis six times, wounding him mortally, while his brother, with a revolver, kept the crowd back. He declared that Annis had ruined his young wife. Captain Peter Hains was stationed at Fort Hamilton, and had sued for divorce, while Mrs Hains on Annis' advice counter-sued for divorce, alleging crave misconduct involving several military officers. She declared Thornton Hains, who was the author of a penny "horrible," to be a villain of tragedy and made serious allegations regarding his army life at isolated posts. All the parties are well known, and the case attracting an interest like that of Thaw. ,